tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8647562459433740241.post1445521950129431178..comments2019-05-24T21:10:43.991-04:00Comments on UU A Way Of Life: A viable plan for church growth is based on core values and a sense of purposeDavid G. Markhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08336565533124142690noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8647562459433740241.post-21589661649098123692009-07-07T01:05:17.878-04:002009-07-07T01:05:17.878-04:00David are you aware that you have a Scientology ad...David are you aware that you have a Scientology ad at the bottom of this page?Robin Edgarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06208142626285495635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8647562459433740241.post-47691235489443688492009-07-06T12:10:16.702-04:002009-07-06T12:10:16.702-04:00Interestingly enough I have repeatedly asked Rev. ...Interestingly enough I have repeatedly asked Rev. Peter Morales, now UUA President Morales, to present his credible and realistic &quot;business plan&quot; for just how he intends to &quot;grow&quot; Unitarian*Universalism from the &quot;tiny, declining, fringe religion&quot; that he acknowledges it is today, into &quot;the religion for our time&quot; within *our* time, let&#39;s say 25 to 30 years or so at most. . . To date he has not responded in any way whatsoever to this legitimate question, or indeed any of my other pertinent questions which were posed to him in comments on his &quot;obsolete&quot; &#39;Along The Campaign Trail&#39; blog and elsewhere in the U*U blogosphere.<br /><br />It seems that Rev. Morales was &quot;personally advised&quot; not to answer my serious questions by his fervent supporter Martin Voelker if I am to believe Martin Voelker&#39;s own testimony posted in a comment on a Denver Post article about Rev. Morales&#39; election as President of the UUA. Blogger is not allowing me to copy and paste text so I cannot create direct links to the article and comments here. The article title was &#39;Unitarians elect golden pastor to presidency&#39;. My take on it with links to the article and comments may be found in recent Emerson Avenger blog posts. In fact I posted a brand-spanking new TEA blog post once again asking Rev. Peter Morales to present his &quot;*realistic* business plan&quot; for how he intends to make *The* Tiny Declining Fringe Religion into the The Religion For Our Time just yesterday. Of course, as I have pointed out before, President Morales has yet to even explain exactly what he means by &quot;the religion for our time&quot;. <br /><br />I would like to see Unitarian*Universalism become a much more credible and respectable religion than it is today within a few decades. Like President Morales I would like to see it become a much more multicultural religious community than it is today. I had hoped that if the U*U religious community supported Creation Day as a U*U sponsored inter-religious event that it might have attracted many people from diverse cultural backgrounds to join the U*U religious community but we all know how U*Us fell all over themselves to allow intolerant and even bigotted &quot;fundamentalist atheist&quot; &quot;Humanist&quot; U*Us to slander Creation Day as a cult. I have being saying for years that the failure of the U*U religious community to firmly and forthrightly confront the anti-religious intolerance and bigotry of the &quot;fundamentalist atheist&quot; subset of Humanist U*Us is a major contributing factor as to why U*Uism has not only failed to attract more &quot;people of color&quot; from diverse cultural backgrounds but has even made itself less than palatable to most God believing Americans more generally. Unless this &quot;major problem&quot; of Unitarian*Universalism is responsibly addressed by UUA President Peter Morales his dream of U*Uism becoming &quot;the religion of our time&quot; will never even come close to being fulfilled. U*Uism will remain a &quot;tiny, declining, fringe religion&quot; as long as intolerant and abusive &quot;obnoxious atheists&quot; are allowed to run roughshod over believers in any number of U*U &quot;churches&quot;. President Morales absolutely has to responsibly address this important issue and work to eliminate this &quot;major problem&quot; of the U*U World if he wants U*Uism to have any chance of being &quot;the religion of our time.&quot; God believing people have better things to do with their Sunday mornings than attend a U*U &quot;church&quot; where they are greeted with incredulity, condescension, and even outright hostility and contempt by intolerant and abusive &quot;fundamentalist atheist&quot; U*Us.Robin Edgarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06208142626285495635noreply@blogger.com